Eminem can take a joke, but apparently James Cameron can't. Although the notoriously hot-tempered MC played the straight man (so to speak) during last year's MTV Movie Awards when Baron Cohen—in his flamboyant Brüno guise—dropped from the ceiling and planted his crotch in Slim Shady's gay-panicky face, a Baron Cohen skit lampooning Avatar has been nixed from this Sunday's Oscars telecast. According to New York Magazine, a source inside the Oscars explains why Baron Cohen's name has mysteriously disappeared from the list of Sunday night's presenters:
Baron Cohen planned to appear onstage as a blue-skinned, female Na’vi, with [Ben] Stiller translating “her” interplanetary speech. As the skit went on, though, it would become clear that Stiller wasn’t translating properly, because Cohen would grow ever more upset. At its climax, an infuriated Baron Cohen would pull open “her” evening gown to reveal that s/he was pregnant, knocked up with Cameron’s love child, and would go on to confront her baby daddy as if s/he were on Jerry Springer.